Pueblo Native Americans

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Pueblo Native Americans

• The Pueblos are a group of different tribes who
  are all much alike, so much alike we group them
  together.

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Pueblo Tribes

• Tigua
• Jumano

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Pueblos

• Their name, Pueblo, is Spanish and means "town".
• In larger Pueblos there are several individual
  Pueblo buildings built around a plaza or square.

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Pueblos

• Many Pueblos had hundreds of people living in
  them. Some Pueblos were 4 or 5 stories high.

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Pueblo Building

• Pueblos are built several ways. One way is to use
  rocks to build a wall and cover the rocks with a
  plaster of mud on the outside.
• Adobe is a type of brick made from straw and mud.

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Pueblo Buildings

• A horno is a kind of oven used by Pueblo Indians
  to cook bread and tortillas in.
• They used their roof like a porch.

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Pottery

• They stored and cooked their food in well-made
  pottery.
• The Tigua and other Pueblos are famous for their
  beautiful pottery.

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Farming

• The dry land made it hard to farm.
• The Jumano irrigated their crops from nearby
  streams
• They traded with other groups for things they
  could not grow or make.
• They would travel long distances to trade.

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Pueblo Jobs

• The men cleared the fields and prepared the soil.
  
• The women did most of the farming. They used
  sharp sticks to poke holes in the dirt and put
  seeds in each hole.
• The children would walk the fields every day and
  pick insects off the plants by hand and would
  pull up weeds.

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Pueblo Food

• Pueblo Indians, including the Tigua, are farmers.
  Most of their food comes from crops they plant
  and tend. Corn is the main crop they plant.

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Pueblo Food

• They raised cotton that they used to make cloth.
  They also raised gourds that could be dried out
  and used as containers.

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Pueblo Food

• The men hunted deer, rabbits, antelope, bear and
  any other wild game they could find for meat.
• The women and children would collect wild foods
  like berries when they were in season.

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Leadership

• Each Jumano Village had its own leader and its
  own government.
• Government is a system for running a town or
  country.

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Pueblo Locations of Jumano
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Dancing

• There were important religious ceremonies that
  had to be done at each stage of the farming
  season.
• There were dances and ceremonies while the crops
  were growing to bring rain and protect the crops.
  
• The biggest dances and ceremonies came with the
  harvest of the crops.
• With the Spanish, came diseases and epidemics
  that killed many of the Pueblo Indians.
• Others were killed fighting off the Spanish
  invaders.
• The Plains Jumano were pushed south and west out
  of their territory by the Apache.

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Why did the Jumanos disappear?